An Algerian journalist was arrested on
Friday, press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said, accusing the
country’s government of using the coronavirus crisis to crack down on
independent media.

Khaled Drareni, who serves as RSF’s
Algerian correspondent, has been arrested several times for covering
“Hirak” anti-government protests that had been held in the capital,
Algiers, every Friday since February 2019, until they were suspended last week.